In this interview, Alex Martins, the CTO of continuous quality at CA Technologies, explains how continuous testing, continuous integration, and open source testing tools can help modern software teams keep up with the speed and demands of agile.

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As cyber attacks continue to create panic, the threat to our applications and data in the digital sphere grows stronger. Enterprises in the connected world need to realize that security testing is essential for their web applications. They need modern, all-inclusive security testing plans from the inception of their projects to ensure a secure user experience. Here's how to get started.

In this interview, Janet Gregory, an agile testing coach and process consultant with DragonFire, explains what skills testers need to succeed in today's industry. She talks about how the testing role has changed, what communication skills testers need, and the importance of trying new things.

The main goal of endgame testing is to test the system end to end from the user's perspective. This should ensure continuity between components developed by different teams, continuity in user experience, and successful integration of new features. Endgame testing will often identify gaps that are difficult to discover inside agile teams, including flows across the product.

Test plans are essential for communicating intent and requirements for testing efforts, but excessive documentation creates confusion—or just goes unread. Try the 5W2H method. The name comes from the seven questions you ask: why, what, where, when, who, how, and how much. That's all you need to provide valuable feedback and develop a sufficient plan of action.

In this interview, Jason Arbon, the CEO of Appdiff, explains how artificial intelligence is going to change the way we test our software. He talks about why testers shouldn't be afraid that AI will take their jobs and shows how machine learning can actually be approachable.

In this issue’s cover story, “10 Lessons Learned in Cross-Platform Development" Dewey Hou removes the mystery of how to create apps for both Windows and macOS. There are two feature articles that focus on how to be agile in unconventional ways, an article with advice to help manage technically brilliant but challenging workers and TechWell's own Mike Sowers offers key words of wisdom on developing software faster, better and cheaper in DevOps environments. This issue is loaded with the highest page count over the past four years. To download this free issue, click here.